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County health authorities obtained a court order to lock him up as a danger to the public because he failed to take precautions to avoid infecting others. Specifically, he said he did not heed doctors' instructions to wear a mask in public.



If they obtained a court order that means he was afforded due process, and that is really all society owes him. Whatever sympathy I have for him would vanish the first time he coughed in someone's face.